Ask HN: Is there room/need for a search only Google Competitor?

5 points by bitonomics 12 years ago | 3 comments

I was thinking about it a little today and realized that with the way that Google is growing (in a way becoming the GE of the internet), it starts to generate a lot of conflict of interest when it comes to search.

For example, their products, subsidiaries, and investments might get higher "organic" rankings ahead of other organic results. They have every right to do so and one can only assume that it's in their best interest.

So this begs the question, is there a need in the market for the next search-only Google?

rhubarbquid 12 years ago |

DuckDuckGo and Blekko seem to think so.

edoceo 12 years ago |

DuckDuckGo?

lugg 12 years ago | |

I tried them again this week (next.duckduckgo made me give it another go) still isn't great, found myself using g! almost every time.

I'm almost 100% sure its the lack of bubbling, as much as I hate bubbling as a concept, overall, it makes search ten times better. I would have simply liked if they focused on privacy but kept the killer feature that is user oriented search.

I do like how some of my technical questions found long forgotten forums and mailing list archives that google wouldn't dare show me anymore. Even if I was just looking for the stackoverflow answer..